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Say if you're on a subway and they get onto the car and just before the doors close, they jump off

and get back onto the platform. Well, if any of us do that, obviously, it's going to tip him off,

and then they just abort their missions. Hello and welcome to Slate's TV Club Insider podcast for Season 4 of the Americans, where today we'll be discussing episode 3, experimental prototype city of tomorrow.

I'm June Thomas, a writer and editor at Slate, and I'm the host of this podcast, which takes you behind the scenes of the show.

Today we're going to be talking with a former FBI special agent who, like Stan Beeman,

worked in the Counterintelligence Division.

And after that, the show's line producer, Mary Ray Thuleas,

and Bob Lemmchen, Senior Vice President Production for Fox 21 Television Studios,

who will be joining us from Los Angeles.

I'm in Slate's New York studio with Joe Weisberg, the creator of the show. Hi, Joe.

Hi, Joon Thomas.

And his co-showrunner and co-executive producer Joel Fields. Hi, Joel.

Hey, June.

Our real-life Stan Beeman is Richard Colmore, who was Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division

before he retired just a few weeks ago. Thanks for joining us, Rick.

Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for the invite. I think he's closer to Frank Gad. I'm

just going to say that. Yes, yes, absolutely. You're right. Now, we know that television can

ever be totally accurate, and I know sometimes FBI agents actually spend their whole days at their desk doing research.

But generally speaking, what are your biggest beefs accuracy-wise about the way the agency gets portrayed on television?

Oh, my God.

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